I agree with you, becoming more like the United States in every way would not make Europe better. There are many things I would not want to imitate, like strip malls, Applebee's, and completely privatized healthcare.

That said there are many things we could learn from the United States, especially around stimulating growth and innovation. Sweden since the 1990s is a great example how you can liberalize your markets, loosen regulations, spur innovation, and reduce tax burden all without completely blowing up your welfare state. Other countries could learn from how to make their economies more competitive without losing all the social benefits they hold dear.

Not all RBC-size particles are created the same. RBCs, for example, biodegrade in a few hours. Plastics don't biodegrade for hundreds of years.

The material here is SrAl2O4:Eu2+,Dy3+ (SA) coated with H3PO4 to prevent hydrolysis and biodegradation. So it's a metal compound, not a plastic. The core compound is well-studied and biologically inert, and the phosphorus is very common in cells. The core compound is inert, sort of like a fine dust.

By contrast, the concern with microplastics is that they can mimic various endocrine compounds (since plastics are organic) and cause endocrine disruption over the long term.

Both types of particles might cause low-level inflammation if they build up, because they're hard to naturally clear, but the metal compound will not interact with the body, whereas microplastics can interact with the body in various unpredictable ways.

Obviously we won't know any health effects until these are much better studied, but we also can't lump all micrometer-sized particles together - these clearly behave differently than microplastics.

Travel for fun is fine but I think the majority of people who use transit systems use them in order to get somewhere.

I was about to suggest LibreOffice, but then I realized you're right. People so stupid they can't use other software that does he same damned job without grabbing your data and putting it behind a paywall can't be helped.

What everyone wants is a user interface that just does what the user wants, without forcing the user to figure out which remote-button or unrecognizably-abstract onscreen icon to push to make it happen.

If Samsung's AI can implement that, e.g. by listening to free-form English commands and reliably acting on them in a useful manner (a big if, but not inconceivable), it will be popular.

Easier said than done, if most of your content is being streamed over the Internet.

I didn't RTFA. Where did anyone mention a ban? Anything that can be breathed into your lungs that deeply needs study.

Let's throw more money at it for sure. Maybe they'll find something to your satisfaction, maybe not, but where did this ban straw man come from?

"Oh, no! My AWS bucket must not have been properly secured and all of my code was stolen and leaked! That never happens!" Computer, and cloud, security is so hard these days.

In many countries/areas GPS doesn't know the speed limit of all roads (Ford starting reading signs thing a few years back) it also accounts for temporary changes such as road works to be able to read the signs. A true FSD needs to able to account for items not in GPS that means all kinds of signs posted for whatever reason

Why expend that budget when there is another company out there very close to FSD likely to get it done (already demonstrating it in use) with far cheaper hardware in the car that doesn't make the car look ridiculous or damage phone(or other) cameras and is willing to licence it to you

The CoPilot avatar is clearly the blob that runs down your leg after that dirty deed.

Fuck no. I would go without a large screen rather than use anything with AI bullshit baked in. This is why pirating is making a comeback. People simply want to avoid all this tech bro spyware bullshit. Torrent ... NAS ... KODI ... HTPC ... big screen monitor (not TV). For the win.

When you commit to the so-called "Cloud", you aren't just voluntarily dropping your pants and bending over a barrel, you're also consenting to a gang bang.

I hear ICE has also requested that the rocket use Tesla's famous self-driving technology.